Software Engineer’s Three-Hour Detour

Work with me Software engineer at Discord I’m making a change to our mobile apps so I usually test locally with a simulated iOS app! I’m not showing work code here, it’s a personal project 👀 This is all changes I can make in React Native which is great since I don’t have to write Kotlin or Obj-C I have to look up documentation since I’m not too familiar with React Native components And what I thought would take 1 hour to do will now take me about 3 so that’s fun... back to work now 😅

A software engineer starts by confidently showing off a coffee-and-coding setup, then explains that she is testing a simulated iOS app and making changes in React Native. She soon has to look up documentation because she is unfamiliar with the components, turning a one-hour task into a three-hour task; the final thumbs-up and resigned expression make the joke relatable to programmers who lose hours to debugging and setup. The clip uses Mae Stephens’s “If We Ever Broke Up (Mixed),” a bright pop track whose cheerful breakup lyrics create an ironic contrast with the escalating work frustration.

If we ever broke up, I'd never be sad Think about everything I thought we had Things you said if we ever broke up

♪ Mae Stephens — If We Ever Broke Up (Mixed)

• @rzeczyzabawne / 6007 2023-01-30